February 24th, 2008
Good-bye to A Great Friend
The Albuquerque Tribune died yesterday after a long illness. It was 86 years old. The Tribune was born in 1922 as Magee’s Independent, a weekly sheet. Its midwife and first editor was an Oklahoma City transplant named Carlton Cole Magee (1873-1946). Magee was a lawyer who later invented the parking meter. Magee went after government corruption aggressively. He wrote a …
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February 24, 2008 Sunday at 10:30 pm
